Lisa Philip
Before joining WUNC in October as the station's new education reporter, Lisa Philip covered schools in Howard County, Maryland for the Baltimore Sun newspapers. She traveled from school playgrounds to the state legislature, writing about everything from a Girl Scout friendship bench project to a state investigation into local school officials' alleged hiding of public records.
Lisa initially became interested in education reporting while working for an after school music education program in five Baltimore City schools. In her former life, she trained and worked as a professional violist and arts administrator. She has been telling stories since age 5, when she wrote and (poorly) illustrated her first book, "Mary and the Key Lime Pie."
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A Raleigh-based government relations expert has been chosen to lead North Carolina’s community college system. The last president resigned after a...
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Tensions on the UNC Board of Governors remain high, a month after the board's chairman wrote an op-ed calling for the board to be united. In the...
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North Carolina is still spending much less on public education than it did before the Great Recession. That's according to a recent report from the left...
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Updated Dec. 15 | 3:53 p.m. On Friday the University of North Carolina Board of Governors heard from a conservative scholar advocating against 'campus...
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Wake County parents have been very active in fighting a class-size law they say will hurt student learning. They've even come up with a hashtag that has...
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A recent analysis of five decades of data shows that high-quality early childhood education has lasting benefits for kids. Yet in North Carolina, less...
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Updated at 10:56 a.m., September 8, 2017 The UNC Board of Governors has passed a resolution that bans university-based centers from filing lawsuits. The...
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The State Board of Education will take a final vote on Thursday on its plan for evaluating North Carolina public schools, a requirement of the Every...
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Senators have again threatened to close North Carolina’s only state-run residential school for kids with severe mental illness. The Senate’s latest...
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Teens in North Carolina lag behind many of their international peers in math. That's according to the most recent results of the Program of...